Gerard Bucknall
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Lieutenant-General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. He is most notable for being the commander of XXX Corps during the No
Lieutenant-General Bucknall (left) with Brigadier Harold Pyman in Normandy, 1944.
Normandy landings
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War. Codenamed Oper
Gerard Bucknall
…a senior British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. He is most notable for being the commander of XXX Corps during the Normandy landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy which followed in the summer of 1944. Gerard Bucknall was born on 14 September 1894 in Rock Ferry, Cheshire…
Into the Jaws of Death: men of the 16th Infantry Regiment wade ashore on Omaha Beach
Meeting of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), 1 February 1944. Front row: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder; General Dwight D. Eisenhower; General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Back row: Lieutenant General Omar Bradley; Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory; Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith.
Shoulder patches were designed for units of the fictitious First United States Army Group under George Patton.
Czech hedgehogs deployed on the Atlantic Wall near Calais